Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011) is an American documentary by Peter Joseph you can watch online on iFILM. At nearly three hours, it makes a sustained case that the global monetary system is not just flawed but structurally guaranteed to produce the outcomes it does — inequality, conflict, ecological damage — and that patching it from within changes nothing.

The film moves through three broad sections. The first draws on neuroscience and psychiatry — Robert Sapolsky on stress and hierarchy, Gabor Maté on how environment shapes behavior — to argue that human nature is more plastic than economics assumes. The second pulls apart the mechanics of debt-based money. The third lays out futurist Jacque Fresco's "Resource-Based Economy," a proposed alternative built around automated production and shared access rather than markets.

Joseph is not trying to be neutral, and the film doesn't pretend otherwise. It is advocacy documentary filmmaking: dense, earnest, and cumulative. Whether you find it persuasive or overstated depends entirely on how much you already distrust the premise. Stream Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011) online on iFILM.